Re: Have you ever thrown a bike away?

My Mom threw away my 1986 Zeronine XL , which I still piss and moan about from time to time . It was taken apart and wrapped up and covered with a small tarp . I left it when I went away for school for 2 years . Came back and found out she threw it away thinking it was broken garbage . Bummer . lol

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I initial thoughts about the Kuwahara was to give it a nice new coat of paint, possibly flat black, then give the chrome a nice shine. But it has issues, the mounts for the canti style brakes have been cut, i was quoted at 30$ for the fix, but then i noticed the freewheel was broken...and now a bent axle lol I still think it's a cool bike.... And i think it has potential.

Re: Have you ever thrown a bike away?

I tossed my childhood diamondback strike zone f&f out with all my bmx stuff.I thought "no one wants this old school stuff anymore" my kids will want the new school.So during a clean up of my shed it got tossed.... I ummmmed n arrrred about it for ages. Not long after I found this site. Didn't I make a bad choice!

Re: Have you ever thrown a bike away?

Norcoplease wrote:

How many of you have throw a potential project away because you didn't think it was worth putting money into?

I threw a kids bike in the river once in revenge, because he sent two of his friends after me for something stupid. And that was after I beat up his friends. It had Gen 1 Bullseye hubs and all the "stuff" that went with it...that was 25 years ago, think I should dredge the river?

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Its probly still right were you saw it land, unless it's a big river with lots of floods. I throw tons of bikes out every day. It's all old school Mtn bike, road bikes, and China garbage. All the bmx finds a home here tho. I do gotta get rid of some Huffy's tho, I find a lot of those. If you want one, lemme know, I got a few, I'll make you a hell of a deal, lol.

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I threw out an orange '71 Iverson Roadrunner back in the mid 80's; I was 15. Fast forward to 2006-7 and my son's friend shows up on a flat black Iverson without the banana seat; had a big Schwinn seat. I asked him where he got it and he said his uncle garbage picked it when he was a kid. I told him that it could be my old bike and he said 'no way, my uncle lived in Bay' (a few towns away. No kidding, I grew up in Bay - turns out his uncle lived in the cul-de-sac at the end of my street. He was 5-6 years younger so I didn't know him. He still has the original seat but he didn't like the white seat with orange stripes on a flat black bike.

I've tried to buy it from my son's friend but he won't sell. Although, he just got his license a couple months ago... I wonder if he could use some gas money!

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Only an accidental one that I found out about after the fact. Mom's old garage was falling down about 5 years ago and the neighbor helped out by bringing a dump truck and a track hoe and removing the garage. What I was told earlier this year while trying to relocate my 1979 MCS Magnum was "Oh hunny, I think that old bike was there in the garage and they just SCOOPED IT ALL UP IN THE DUMP TRUCK" ahhhhhhhhrgh!!